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Archive: 01/2008

The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.

January 2, 2008

• Watchdog warns that corporations’ financial viability is at risk
• On the eve of the Iowa caucuses
  Corporate money, media manipulation and the US elections
• The state of Iraq as it enters 2008
• Germany: Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party) manifesto for Hesse state elections
• French President Sarkozy visits Afghanistan
• Sri Lankan president marks tsunami anniversary by beating the war drums
• Sri Lankan tsunami victims speak out
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

January 3, 2008

• Letters from our readers
• Australia: Political vendetta resumes as David Hicks leaves prison
• “Antiwar” candidate Kucinich backs leading Democrat in Iowa primary
• New York City: With hunger on the rise, food banks supplies running low
• France: social cuts announced over Christmas holidays
• Terry Hicks, father of former Guantánamo prisoner, speaks with WSWS
• Kenya: Violence spreads following presidential elections
• New York Times to feature neo-conservative war advocate William Kristol as op-ed columnist
• Pakistani regime announces lengthy election delay

January 4, 2008

• US Justice Department opens criminal investigation into CIA tape destruction
• Britain: Gifted young footballer fights deportation
• Report documents growth of social inequality in France
• German SEP candidate condemns anti-immigrant campaign in Hesse
• Detained immigrants on hunger strike in France: “We refuse to be treated as sub-humans”
• The art of Oscar Peterson: legacy of a jazz piano virtuoso
• Qantas prepares strike-breaking operation against licensed engineers
• Thai election commission casts doubt over poll outcome
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

January 5, 2008

• California prepares massive cuts in response to budget crisis and economic woes
• India: Hindu-communalist BJP wins assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh
• US poor and uninsured suffer substantially worse health outcomes
• Obama, Huckabee finish first in Iowa Democratic, Republican caucuses
• Cutbacks to Iraqi food rations threaten malnutrition and starvation
• Sharp rise in unemployment rate
  US jobs report shows slide into recession
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Russia’s presidential candidate D. Medvedev and the Kremlin’s “national projects”
• Spain: Socialist Party capitulates to right wing anti-abortionists
• A socialist perspective for the film and television writers strike

January 7, 2008

• Belgium: Interim government appointed
• Canadian university locks out faculty
• New Hampshire debates: Democrats and Republicans embrace US militarism
• France: Students need a socialist perspective and a turn to the working class
• Koch stokes the flames of racism
  German state premier campaigns against “foreign criminals”
• Secret White House meeting plans US military escalation in Pakistan
• Beleaguered Pakistani president lashes out at critics
• Tamil opposition MP assassinated in Sri Lankan capital

January 8, 2008

• Britain: Brown government slashes science budget
• Letters from our readers
• A warning to the American people: “Thinking the unthinkable” at the Democratic presidential debate
• Australia: NSW Labor government unveils electricity sell-off
• Kenya: Social disintegration in country touted as African “success” story
• I am Legend: Apocalypse soon
• Naval encounter highlights tensions stoked by Bush trip to Middle East
• Britain: Brown government slashes science budget
• Declassified letter exposes Democratic Party complicity in CIA torture
• US judge imposes gag order against retired auto workers in UAW-GM case
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

January 9, 2008

• US illegally detains more Afghans than ever at Bagram military base
• Australian shopping centre investment trust, Centro, faces collapse
• The fight for equal pay for women: Britain’s Guardian defends union’s dirty deals
• New Hampshire primary foreshadows protracted contest for US presidential nominations
• Sentencing begins in Jose Padilla trial
• Sri Lankan government pulls out of 2002 ceasefire agreement
• US Supreme Court hears challenge to lethal injection procedure

January 10, 2008

• The wages of betrayal
  France: Top union pension negotiator gets lucrative promotion
• Letters from our readers
• The India-Australia cricket conflict: sport, profits and nationalism
• Britain: Once again on the role of the “left” within the trade unions
• Death toll continues to rise as US military launches new offensive in Iraq
• Rock-bottom wages for German postal workers
• US Supreme Court reviews Indiana voter ID law
• Film and television writers’ strike: picketing resumes and so does the political discussion

January 11, 2008

• The US elections: In whose interest is the campaign for “bipartisan unity”?
• Germany: Right-wing campaign in the Hesse state election
  The debate over youth crime
• Bush exploits Strait of Hormuz incident to threaten Iran
• Shiite powersharing deal exacerbates sectarian divisions in Iraq
• The family as the root of all evil: Noah Baumbach’s Margot at the Wedding
• Notes on the political and economic crisis of the world capitalist system and the perspective and tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
• US judge denies request for hearings on CIA torture tapes
• Turkey: Workers protest against betrayal by trade union confederation
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

January 12, 2008

• US carries out massive bombing on outskirts of Baghdad
• Charlie Wilson’s War: Mike Nichols’s pro-war film
• US Federal Reserve chairman warns of recession danger, promises more rate cuts
• Republican candidates deny recession, hail Iraq war as “success”
• Bush’s vision of a Palestinian state: Subservient to Israel and policed by the major powers
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Germany: PSG candidate challenges chairman of the Left Party
• Lahore bombing casts pall over Pakistani election

January 14, 2008

• Philip Agee, former agent who exposed CIA crimes, dies in Cuba
• Bush uses Abu Dhabi speech to escalate threats against Iran
• Australian Labor government threatens to censor Internet
• Western powers rush to recognise result of Georgian presidential election
• Beijing delays direct elections in Hong Kong for another decade
• Nevada teachers union challenges Democratic caucus rules
• New study estimates more than 150,000 violent deaths in Iraq over three years
• Film and television writers plan “Strike TV” Internet programming

January 15, 2008

• California: Schwarzenegger administration presents austerity budget
• Britain: Brown government set for conflict with public sector over pay and cuts
• Australia: Labor’s Julia Gillard threatens legal action against strikes
• Italian judge seeks trial of 140 over Operation Condor repression
• US bank losses intensify recession fears
• Sri Lankan government imposes new anti-strike measures on health workers
• US film studios and television networks announce layoffs and cutbacks
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

January 16, 2008

• Clinton-Obama row over Iraq record masks consensus on continued occupation
• France: Police-state measures against immigrants provoke resistance
• US appellate court rejects British victims’ suit for Guantánamo torture damages
• A letter and reply on Pakistan
• Credit crunch impacts on South Korea
• Behind the rhetoric at Wiesbaden election meeting
  German Left Party seeking a deal with the SPD in Hesse
• Britain: Prosecution of civil servant under Official Secrets Act fails
• Britain: Who and what is the Policy Exchange think tank?
• A comment: What will be the impact of the writers’ strike on the writers themselves?

January 17, 2008

• Tony Blair and the business of making money
• Letters from our readers
• “De-Baathification” laws modified by Iraq’s parliament
• Kentucky faces budgetary crisis, shortfall in state pension funds
• NBC excludes Kucinich from debate: a gross violation of democratic rights
• Michigan primary vote shows political impact of US slide into recession
• “Muslims in Germany” study: State-propagated racism under the guise of science
• Bomb blast marks formal end of Sri Lankan ceasefire agreement

January 18, 2008

• Letters from our readers
• Britain: Terminally ill Ghanaian woman deported and denied medical care
• As Wall Street posts sharp losses, Washington promotes “stimulus package”
• Québec: To counter the assault on education, a new political perspective is needed
• Japanese government pushes through law to allow naval support for Afghan occupation
• Nepali Maoists rejoin interim government to contest elections
• US: Oregon refunds over a billion tax dollars while programs suffer
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

January 19, 2008

• Bush orders “mini-surge” of US troops to Afghanistan
• Canada’s colonial-style, “embedded” Afghan advisors subject of bureaucratic squabble in Ottawa
• Another belated disclosure from the pharmaceutical industry
  Cholesterol-lowering drug linked to increased risk of heart attack
• Bush announces “stimulus” plan as recession fears grip Washington
• Possible flu pandemic: US government plans to treat sick people “like potential enemies”
• Germany: Train drivers union submits to government and management
  Drivers must reject the new contract!
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• “Neon Bible” by the Arcade Fire: Where to from here?
• Omagh bombing trial: Hoey cleared, but little else clarified

January 21, 2008

• Amid record losses, Wall Street awarded itself $39 billion
• Billions wiped off Australian share market
• US presidential nomination campaigns remain deadlocked after January 19 votes
• US: General Motors to offer more job buyouts
• French revisionist Pierre Lambert dies aged 87
• Germany: Nokia announces closure of its Bochum factory
  The fight to defend jobs needs an international strategy
• Pakistan roiled by flour and electricity shortages, food price rises
• A lively and engaging walk through history for children
• Media, employers use Directors Guild deal as a battering ram against striking writers

January 22, 2008

• Further war threatens in Congo as rivalry for resources intensifies
• Letters from our readers
• Threat of US recession panics global stock markets
• France: the politics of the National Student Coordinating Committee and the role of the LCR
• US-backed Israeli siege creates humanitarian disaster in Gaza
• Britain: “Liar loans” drive hundreds of thousands into debt
• Antiwar “Lefts” embrace ultra-right Republican candidate Ron Paul
• Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao accused of instigating 2006 political crisis in East Timor
• Medvedev’s presidential campaign and the growing social crisis in Russia
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

January 23, 2008

• Democrats squabble but offer no solution to war and economic crisis
• US cuts interest rates amid fears of global financial collapse
• Shielding Wall Street, US Supreme Court rejects Enron fraud case
• Britain: Thousands still displaced from homes flooded last summer
• Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on—Part one
• US “enemy combatant” Jose Padilla sentenced to 17 years in prison
• Taiwan’s ruling party suffers major defeat in parliamentary election

January 24, 2008

• Another timeless love affair: Joe Wright’s Atonement
• US recession fears provoke continued market turmoil
• In face of Israeli repression, tens of thousands of Palestinians force their way into Egypt
• PSG candidate demands immediate withdrawal of German army from Afghanistan
• Kenya: post-election violence continues
• Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on—Part two
• NATO must prepare for nuclear first strike, report urges
• Australia: Demands grow for closure of Villawood detention centre
• France obtains energy deals, establishes first military base in Persian Gulf

January 25, 2008

• Canada: Government panel urges increased Canadian role in Afghan war
• Trying too hard in the wrong places: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
• More US job cuts coming at Ford
• France: Unions, employers sign labour reform gutting workers’ rights
• France’s second-largest bank blames “rogue” trader for $7.2 billion loss
• Fishing for coalition partners, German Greens intervene in Hesse elections
• Desperate plight facing millions of Iraqi refugees
• Congressional Democrats embrace Bush’s economic stimulus plan
• The film and television writers’ strike: the dead-end of the trade union perspective

January 26, 2008

• Germany: PSG candidate speaks at student demonstration—“Education is a fundamental right!”
• Germany holds state elections in shadow of world financial crisis
  Vote for the PSG
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Study documents nearly 1,000 lies from Iraq war propaganda campaign
• Year Zero: Trent Reznor looks outside himself
• Pentagon chief says US ready to deploy combat troops in Pakistan
• ISSE intervenes in student assembly at Québec university
• Fighting in Sri Lanka continues unabated as ceasefire expires
• US Senate moves to grant immunity to telecoms complicit in illegal wiretapping

January 28, 2008

• 80th Academy Award nominations: a very poor showing
• Continuing turbulence on Australian share markets
• Canadian university forces locked-out faculty to vote on “final offer”
• Obama wins South Carolina Democratic presidential primary
• An interview with an Iranian activist on arrests of left-wing students
• Iranian government intensifies crackdown on left-wing opposition
  SEP and ISSE demand immediate release of arrested students
• Government crisis in Italy
  Romano Prodi resigns
• Beleaguered Pakistani President visits Europe to shore up support for military regime
• Shifting burden from Wall Street to the working class
  New York City mayor announces budget cuts

January 29, 2008

• British plans to arm Afghan militias reignite tensions with US
• Two more elderly men die alone in Sydney
• Bush’s last State of the Union speech overshadowed by deepening crisis
• Letters from our readers
• UK minister resigns in another funding scandal
• South Africa hit by power cuts
• France: Trader accuses Société Générale of using him as a “smokescreen”
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

January 30, 2008

• German state elections reveal pronounced shift to the left by electorate
• US home foreclosures rise by 75 percent in 2007
• Indian prime minister’s visit to China seeks to boost bilateral ties, but tensions persist
• Iraq: US military extends its offensive into the northern city of Mosul
• Filipino nurses face trumped-up charges in New York
• Right-wing nationalist leads in Serbian presidential elections
• Government leaders pay tribute to Indonesia’s former dictator Suharto
• Once again, the fundamental questions in the writers’ strike

January 31, 2008

• Colombian rebel leader sentenced to 60 years over captured contractors
• An exchange on “Kenya: Social disintegration in country touted as African ‘success’ story”
• The Australian Labor Party and Indonesia’s dictator Suharto
• France: Pierre Lambert’s funeral underscores OCI’s long-standing opportunism
• Heath Ledger dead at 28: a life tragically cut short
• On the French Riviera:
  Top West Virginia judge vacations with coal boss defendant
• UNICEF report: Infant mortality rates still high
• The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
  Part one
• McCain leads race for Republican presidential nomination after Florida vote
• US: Fed rate cut fails to stem recession fears
• Professor sentenced for criticising Turkish founder